FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 25, 2025 CONTACT: Lynn Tramonte ([email protected] / 202-255-0551) Washington, DC Joined 13 States to Ban Child Marriage WASHINGTON – Child marriage is child abuse. And it […]

Tahirih’s Director of Public Policy, Casey Carter Swegman, wrote an op-ed in Ms. Magazine in support of the Child Marriage Prevention Act, which would go a long way towards ending […]

At the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, survivor of child marriage and internationally-recognized expert on the issue Naila Amin advocates for a federal law, the Child Marriage Prevention Act, […]

Falls Church – While all of Washington, DC’s mid-Atlantic neighbors have taken action to limit or end child marriage, it remains legal in the District in 2024. But the DC […]

With 13 states having ended child marriage entirely, and every state from North Carolina to Maine taking action on the issue since 2016, D.C. must take urgent action to end child marriage.

The Child Marriage Prevention Act of 2024 is groundbreaking federal legislation that represents the first concerted effort by the United States Congress to condemn and prevent child marriage domestically. View the one pager and section-by-section summary of the bill here.

Governor Chris Sununu has signed SB 359 into law raising the legal age of marriage to 18 without exceptions in New Hampshire, making it the 13th state to end child marriage.